JLPT N4 #20 Let My People Go! (Test 2)

@1:19 LISTENING BEGINS
@2:03 – について
@2:37 – どうして vs. どうやって
@3:15 – Quotation と-Particle
@4:35 – Verb Stems as Nouns
@5:33 – Negative Questions as Invitations & Direct/Casual Style
@6:33 – Direct/Casual Style and です / い-Adjectives
@7:13 – Be careful: it’s だ＋けど, not だけ+ど – Also @23:41, @30:46
@8:54 – “Extended Predicate” んです・んだ・のです・のだ
@9:45 – い-Adjectives turn into Adverbs いく
@11:05 – Intransitive vs. Transitive
@14:12 – ～ていて て-Form of ～ている
@15:39 – ～ても
@16:19 – The odd nature of Movement Verbs
@19:15 – Potential Form trips up Evan because he’s tired.
@19:47 – All Potential Forms are Group 2 Verbs （る）
@19:59 – The “Special Polite Verbs”
@20:59 – て-Forms as giving a reason , causation, a required condition
@21:53 – みたい – Like, resembling
@22:42 – Linking Adjectives together で、くて (Colors are strange)
@23:19 – い-Adjective (no い) そう – Seems like
@25:07 – は being used as a contrast to something that doesn’t seem like a contrast.
@25:40 – “Ride on a boat”, “Board onto a boat” に
@26:07 – Potential Form – Also @27:15
@26:30 – Potential Verbs operate like Adjectives (Sort of)
@27:34 – 歩いて行く – “Go by walking”
@27:43 – “By means of” で has strong connections to the て-Form of だ・です
@28:10 – はcomes after Particles, even から！
@28:19 – Restrictive nature of は on full display
@29:47 – Nominalizing の
@31:09 – なら functioning like は – は came from a Conditional
@31:52 – なら’s な probably came from the same place as な-Adjective’s な
@33:14 – で vs. に in the realm of Time
@33:48 - ～おう ending of Verbs: the Tentative / Consultative (Plain/Casual form of ～ましょう)
@35:13 – Evan becomes Japanese Moses
@36:46 – THE ANSWER
@37:30 – で “By means of” and で “Place of action” have an overlap
@39:50 – Noun だから is different than Noun から
@40:44 – “NORMAL ENGLISH” TRANSLATION
@ 43:46 – FULL LISTENING, NON-STOP!

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